OFFSITE
The OFFSITE system initialization parameter specifies whether CICS is to restart in off-site recovery mode; that is, a restart is taking place at a remote site.
- OFFSITE={NO|YES}
- For a successful off-site restart, the log records of the failed
CICS region must be available at the remote site. CICS does not provide
a facility for shipping log records to a remote backup site, but you
can use a suitable vendor product to perform this function. See the
relevant product documentation for other procedures you need to follow
for a remote site restart.
See Administering restart and recovery for more information about remote site recovery.
- NO
- CICS will not perform the special restart processing required for remote site recovery.
- YES
- CICS will perform an off-site restart at a remote site following
a disaster at the primary site. CICS performs this special processing
for an off-site restart, because some information (for example, a
VSAM lock structure) is not available at the remote site.
CICS performs an emergency restart, even if the global catalog indicates that CICS can do a warm start. OFFSITE=YES is valid with START=AUTO only, and CICS initialization is terminated if you specify START=COLD or INITIAL.
Restrictions
You can specify the OFFSITE parameter in PARM, SYSIN, or CONSOLE only.